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Latvian Green Party Latvijas Zaļā partija | |
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| Abbreviation | LZP |
| Chairman | Edgars Tavars |
| Founder | Oļegs Batarevskis |
| Founded | 13 January 1990 |
| Headquarters | Skolas iela 3 (4 stāvs), 401 kab. LV-1010, Riga |
| Membership (2017) | 790[1] |
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| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| National affiliation | Union of Greens and Farmers (2002–2022) United Latvian List (2022–) |
| European affiliation | European Greens (2003–2019) |
| Colours | Green |
| Saeima | 4 / 100 [2] |
| European Parliament | 0 / 8 |
| Mayors | 3 / 43 |
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The Latvian Green Party (Latvian: Latvijas Zaļā partija, LZP) is a green political party in Latvia.[3]
It was founded in 1990. It was a member of the European Green Party from 2003 until its expulsion in 2019.[4] It is positioned in the centre[3] and leans towards the centre-right on the political spectrum,[5][6][7] and it supports socially conservative views.[3][8] The party held the world's first prime minister affiliated to a green party with Indulis Emsis who briefly served as Prime Minister of Latvia in 2004; further, the world's first head of state as party member Raimonds Vējonis served as President of Latvia between 2015 and 2019.[7]
- ^ "Latvijā partijās daudzkārt mazāk biedru nekā Lietuvā un Igaunijā. Kāpēc tā?" (in Latvian). LSM.lv. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ https://jauns.lv/raksts/zinas/421333-reiznieces-ozolas-vieta-darbu-saeima-saks-edgars-tavars Reiznieces-Ozolas vietā darbu Saeimā sāks Edgars Tavars
- ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Latvia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Latvian Green Party expelled from European Green Party". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. LETA. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- ^ FIBS Report: Central Eurasia, 1993, p. 107.
- ^ Marja Nissinen: Latvia's Transition to a Market Economy: Political Determinants of Economic Reform Policy, London: Palgrave Macmillan 1998, p. 119.
- ^ a b Miranda Schreurs; Elim Papadakis, eds. (2019). Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-5381-1960-0.
- ^ Auers, Daunis (May 2012). "The curious case of the Latvian Greens". Environmental Politics. 21 (3): 522–527. doi:10.1080/09644016.2012.671579. ISSN 0964-4016. S2CID 144438163.